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“Ha Ha Tonka take the rudimentary things of great roots music - the full bodied feel of The Band, a splash of Tom Petty's widescreen storytelling, the graceful arcs of Wilco - and inject them with young man hunger and back-to-basics bar band aesthetics.”

— Jambase

“Think Kings of Leon, before they lost their soul, and with better songwriting.”

— Cause Equals Time

“Ha Ha Tonka caught the new wave of ersatz old-time stompers and pickers churned up by the Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show, but the Springfield, Missouri band rides the twang with an idiosyncratic style and the electric confidence of self-made Ozark shit-kickers.”

— Dallas Observer

“Bible in one hand, broken bottle in the other.”

— Spin

“Crawling out of the Bible Belt with a head full of questions and wielding one big ass guitar, Ha Ha Tonka has found one hell of a recipe for rock and roll.”

— Relix

“Kings of Leon, meet your competition.”

— Blurt

“Best band in Missouri... Imagine Wilco's most tolerable moments brought to life with the beer-tilting kicks of Kings of Leon - now jab it with a hickory stick and make it angry.”

— Boston Phoenix

“If Novel Sounds was a novel, it'd be Southern gothic. The songs are full of sin and violence”